The Food Programme: Taking the Biscuit: How a Sweet Baked Snack Became a British Staple

Over the first three months of lockdown, the UK spent an extra £19million on biscuits, according to market research firm Kantar. Sheila Dillon considers how and why biscuits have become a beloved British institution and why baking biscuits helped keep so many sane during lockdown and continue to bring people together today